Favorite Fall Fish

Fishing Warm water Forum
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Just for discussion purposes…

What is your favored species to fish for during fall in your area and why??

I’ve never fished warm water in the fall so my favorite would of course be BIG brown trout!

I think I’ll really enjoy chasing smallies during the fall though…I’ve read a lot about em in fall and sounds like nothing but fun.

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  1. Warm water fish(lm bass, catfish crappie) put on the feed bag in the fall. In one pond the catfish concentrate around Persimon trees I guess they are attracted to the fruit that falls in the water. It is a hoot . It seems like we also catch some of the biggest crappie of the year in the fall also.

I like it all we usually get a few trout trips in the fall also. If I venture as far as colorado it can sometimes be one of those dream trips

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I can think of little more fun than sitting in my canoe in still water, surrounded by reflections of the golden leaves, fighting big bluegill or largemouth bass. Sometimes you look at a calendar and wish to be right in the picture, and at times in the fall, that is precisely how I feel. it is so vividly wonderful. JGW

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This is smallmouth time. The rivers are down and clear. The smallies are fattening up for the winter. I would of course prefer brown trout if they were around, but they are not. There are, however, rivers full of smallies and you do not have to be an expert to catch them.

So why am I indoors?

David

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Certainly not…fallfish.

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Smallmouth hands down in September and early October. They?re easy to catch and plentiful in the rivers near my house. Come mid October, I commit all my fishing time to steelhead fishing. This will be my 3rd year flinging flies for steelhead and last fall and winter it all seemed to come together so I?m excited about the upcoming season.

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Smalmouth cuase they fun. Carppie cause they tasty.
Monday between my wife and myself we’ve hooked about 40 fish.
The fall feed fever is on in the Poconos.

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Hands down this is smallmouth time… Smallies really tie on the feed bags in the fall.
Over the weekend I fished a Va river and had more than one smallie chase my flie. They just attack with reckless abandon. I had one hit my flie 3 times before it got hooked.

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Anytime of the year, perch are the most fun! I enjoy smallmouth, but for consistent bites, and scrappy fish, it’s perch all day long.

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Nothing like a brook trout. Seeing them in fall colors is even better than this picture.
jed

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Smallies…and I actually like catching the ginormous sized Fallfish!!! They be fun too!

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Smallies are fun, but my heart turns to white bass and wipers in the fall. By mid October they’re usually back on the points and rip-rap where the bank-bound amongst us can reach them and they are feeding heavily. Occasionally I’ll even tie into a good walleye working the points. In a good year it can last into the first weeks of December, but it’s usually tailing off by Thanksgiving. Then it’s time to start tying flies for Spring.

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Stripers and hybrids are going to be moving up into shallower water as it cools off. That means so hot action on the fly!
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Crappie and then gills.

Rick

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Well being I just started fly fishing a month and a half ago and would love to concentrate on trout here in Northwest Indiana we don’t have much trout water.

Lucky for me I have plenty of spots for SMALL MOUTH Fishing. The fall is my favorite time to fish for them as they are fattening up for the long cold winter.

I will also be going after some salmon.

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Stripers!

Semper Fi!

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Steelhead on The Rocky River. The Rock because it?s in my backyard. Steelhead because the start the run is in the fall. And it?s my happy place.

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favorite fall fish, thats a hard one. this time of year I love to chase the wipers, then there is also some great crappie, and LMB fishing, and our only real trout fishery starts to get good around Nov (witch is fall to texans). then there are the bull reds and ladyfish on the coast. I cant deceide i guess I will have to go chase them all.

I love this time of year.

Darryl

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I still consider myself fairly new to fly fishing (just over a year) and can’t be so picky as to the species.

I would have to say my favorite fall fish is whichever one is at the end of my line. :smiley:

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I would have to say my favorite fall fish is whichever one is at the end of my line.

Funny, that species is my favorite spring, summer, and winter fish as well. :lol:

Jeff